August 29
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August 29 is the 241st day of the year (242nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 124 days remaining after August 29 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French statesman (d. 1683)
- 1632 – John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
- 1780 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
- 1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894)
- 1810 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentine politician and writer (d. 1884)
- 1862 – Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
- 1862 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer (d. 1949)
- 1871 – Albert Lebrun, President of France (d. 1950)
- 1876 – Charles Franklin Kettering, American inventor (d. 1958)
- 1876 – Kim Gu, Korean politician (d. 1949)
- 1888 – Gunichi Mikawa, Japanese admiral (d. 1981)
- 1904 – Werner Forssmann, German physician (d. 1979)
- 1915 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
- 1920 – Charlie Parker, American musician (d. 1955)
- 1923 – Richard Attenborough, British film director
- 1924 – Dinah Washington, American singer (d. 1963)
- 1934 – Horst Szymaniak, German footballer (d. 2009)
- 1935 – William Friedkin, American film director
- 1936 – John McCain, US pilot and politician
- 1938 – Elliott Gould, American actor
- 1938 – Robert Rubin, American politician, former United States Secretary of the Treasury
- 1939 – Joel Schumacher, American director
- 1946 – Dimitris Christofias, Cypriot politician, President of Cyprus
- 1947 – Temple Grandin, American animal welfare and autism expert
- 1956 – GG Allin, American musician (d. 1993)
- 1958 – Michael Jackson, American singer and entertainer (d. 2009)
- 1958 – Lenny Henry, British comedian
- 1959 – Stephen Wolfram, British mathematician
- 1959 – Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
- 1959 – Eddi Reader, Scottish singer
- 1961 – Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player
- 1969 – Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
- 1976 – Pablo Mastroeni, American footballer
- 1976 – Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer
- 1976 – Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
- 1977 – Jo Weil, German actor
- 1980 – David Desrosiers, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
- 1982 – Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian footballer
- 1986 – Lauren Collins, Canadian actress
- 1986 – Lea Michele, American actress and singer
[change] Deaths
- 886 – Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)
- 1093 – Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy
- 1395 – Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)
- 1435 – Isabeau de Bavière, queen of Charles VI of France (b. 1371)
- 1533 – Atahualpa, last Inca ruler of Peru (b. 1502)
- 1769 – Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher (b. 1672)
- 1799 – Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
- 1866 – Tokugawa Iemochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1846)
- 1877 – Brigham Young, Mormon leader (b. 1801)
- 1904 – Murad V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
- 1918 – Max Dauthendey, German writer (b. 1867)
- 1930 – William Archibald Spooner, writer (b. 1844)
- 1931 – David T. Abercrombie, a founder of American clothing retailer Abercrombie and Fitch (b. 1867)
- 1935 – Queen Astrid of Belgium (b. 1905)
- 1947 – Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
- 1966 – Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906).
- 1972 – Lale Andersen, German singer (b. 1905)
- 1973 – Stringer Davis, English actor (b. 1899)
- 1975 – Éamon de Valera, Irish statesman and President of Ireland (b. 1882)
- 1981 – Lowell Thomas, travel writer (b. 1892)
- 1982 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
- 1984 – Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian politician and President of Egypt (b. 1901)
- 1987 – Lee Marvin, actor (b. 1924)
- 1989 – Peter Scott, explorer, naturalist and painter (b. 1909)
- 2003 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.1939)
- 2004 – Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
- 2007 – Pierre Messmer, Prime Minister of France (b. 1916)
- 2011 – David Honeyboy Edwards, American blues musician (b. 1915)
[change] Events
- 1261 – Urban IV becomes Pope, the last man to do so without being a Cardinal first.
- 1475 – Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England.
- 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII, a staunch supporter of the Spanish Inquisition, is elected Pope.
- 1521 – The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.
- 1526 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
- 1541 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
- 1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War.
- 1786 – Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
- 1862 – Battle of Aspromonte - Italian royal forces defeat rebels.
- 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle.
- 1895 – The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield.
- 1896 – Chop suey is invented in New York City.
- 1898 – Goodyear tire company is founded.
- 1907 – The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
- 1911 – Ishi, considered the last Stone Age Native American, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
- 1930 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of the Scottish island of Saint Kilda leave forever.
- 1943 – German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves Danish government
- 1944 – Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazi rulers.
- 1949 – The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan
- 1952 – Premiere of John Cage's 4'33" in Woodstock, New York
- 1958 – United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 1965 – The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth.
- 1966 – Last Beatles concert, in San Francisco
- 1966 – Execution of Sayyid Qutb, an important theoretician of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
- 1982 – The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
- 1991 – Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party
- 1996 – A Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
- 1997 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
- 1997 – Serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz bludgeons to death Christopher Maier of Lexington, Kentucky, the first of nine victims.
- 1999 – East Timor votes for independence from Indonesia.
- 2003 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, was assassinated in a terrorist bombing that killed him along with nearly 100 worshippers as they were leaving a mosque in Najaf.
- 2004 – End of the 2004 Summer Olympics
- 2005 – Hurricane Katrina reaches the US' Gulf coast with winds at a speed of 225 kph. The city of New Orleans is among the places that are severely flooded.
- 2011 – Hurricane Irene dissolves over Eastern Canada, having left a path of destruction over the Caribbean and Eastern United States.
[change] Observances
- Anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising
